Holocaust survivor and one of his liberators will tell their story

Ernie Gross, a Holocaust survivor, and Don Greenbaum, one of the people who helped to liberate Gross, will speak at 7 p.m. March 2 at a meeting of the Central PA World War II Roundtable at Grace United Methodist Church, 433 E. Main St., Hummelstown.

Ernie Gross

Greenbaum and other troops from the 283rd Field Artillery, 45th Division, 7th Army, stumbled across the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945, when on their way to seize a German army supply depot.

One of the prisoners was Gross, a 16-year-old Romanian Jew.

In 1947, Gross came to the United States and married a fellow concentration camp survivor. According to the roundtable organizers, Gross did not speak about his time in the camp until the 1990s when he saw a Holocaust denier on television.

Don Greenbaum

In 2011, Gross and Greenbaum met and now are close friends who travel together to talk about their experiences.

For more information, call 717-503-2862 or send an email to Charlie Lloyd at charlie.centralpaww2rt@gmail.com.